Knife-maker Walter Doane ''Bo'' Randall, who died in 1989, was honored last week at a Greater Orlando Chamber of Commerce dinner with the John Young Award for bringing national recognition to Orlando.

''Nobody has ever tried to compete with him by mass-production methods,'' said an article in Harper's Magazine years ago. ''For, as warriors and metallurgists have known for centuries, a really superb blade can be created only by painstaking, tedious and at some stages dangerous hand craftsmanship.''

Also honored at the chamber dinner, held at Disney World's Yacht & Beach Club Convention Center, was Frank Hubbard of Hubbard Construction. He was given the J. Thomas Gurney Award for lifetime community service.

Hubbard, who retired as chairman of the company in 1984, has donated $4 million since 1959, said chamber Executive Director Jacob Stuart.

''His desire to enrich the community has set the standard for philanthropy,'' Stuart said.